Common sense?
On a quiet afternoon, I found myself sitting back and listening to a news conference. Our news conference, as a province. We are all learning to hit pause on our routine, when the health officer calls us together.
Turns out, we might (and I say might) have had our first instance of “Community spread”. In pandemic terms, that’s when all efforts to trace the path of the infection fail, and we have to assume that the rule book might be out of date. Just one case, in a local school, but the worry level is at a whole new level. We don’t want to lock things down, any further, but there might (and I say might) have no choice. Suddenly, this looks more serious.
Meanwhile, I had a quiet day at home (sounds familiar) while the others walked in the woods. Photos on social media, with our dog showing his flag (a small white square, positioned strategically below his wager). Fun to see, in the final days before snow arrives.
I read the news online. Beats waiting for a scheduled radio broadcast, or actually subscribing to a newspaper. Today’s phrase: vaccine hesitancy. Seriously. Back in the years before my birth, medicine developed a vaccine against the big menace (polio). I have never read that people developed “hesitancy”. Staying alive was so much better an option. What has happened to the small degree of common sense folks are born with?
I’m waiting for the notice that tells me the where and the when of my inoculation. It’s … what do they say? Common sense.
